The Beast has won this Battle

I went for a 4 mile run yesterday. It was horrific. My ankle felt terrible, and I couldn’t breathe. I had to quit after two miles. The drinking, smoking and lack of eating caught up with me.


My Father’s Day run of 15 miles seems so long ago now. I’m truly horrified about how bad I’ve let myself slip in 9 days. So fuck it, I tipped my hat to the beast. He won a week, after I have won 16 in a row.

I can’t believe how hard the best is fighting me this year. Just in the last week he has put me into emotional distress knowing it would make me drink and smoke. Then he sprained my ankle. The worst part of the ankle sprain is not the sprain itself, but the depression I can fall into from not running. Man, this beast knows every weakness I have.

But yesterdays run was not all bad. It proved to me that I need to cut the shit and get back to training. To refocus my energy on the mission. So this weekend I am planning a major run. I think if I stretch my ankle and work on it, I can get it loose enough to go for it. I have something to prove this weekend. I’m not sure where I’ll be running from. If I’m in Saugus I may run to Mecca. Well it’s my Mecca and I’ll tell you about it sometime. If I’m up north I may retrace the Fathers day fifteen. Either way it’s time to get serious. This booze cruise is over!

Talk to ya soon!

Keep the Faith

Ross

Song of the Day- Someday by Rob Thomas

Seriously, watch this video!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6pODq8_FxE



You can go
You can start all over again
You can try to find a way to make another day go by
You can hide
Hold all your feelings inside
You can try to carry on when all you wanna do is cry


And maybe someday we’ll figure all this out
Try to put an end to all our doubt
Try to find a way to make things better now that
Maybe someday we’ll live our lives out loud
We’ll be better off somehow, someday
Now we wait
And try to find another mistake
If you throw it all away then maybe you can change your mind
You can run
And when everything is over and done
You can shine a little light on everything around you
Man it’s good to be someone

And maybe someday we’ll figure all this out
Try to put an end to all our doubt
Try to find a way to make things better now that
Maybe someday we’ll live our lives out loud
We’ll be better off somehow, someday

I don’t wanna wait
I just wanna know
I just wanna hear you tell me so
Give it to me straight
Tell it to me slow

Cuz maybe someday we’ll figure all this out
We’ll put an end to all our doubt
Try to find a way to just to feel better now
Maybe someday we’ll live our lives out loud
We’ll be better off somehow, someday

‘Cuz sometimes we don’t really notice
Just how good it can get
So maybe we should start all over
Start all over, again

‘Cuz sometimes we don’t really notice
Just how good it can get
So maybe we should start all over
Start all over, again